“Some Kind of Wonderful,” also rose to #16, while “Room Full of Tears,” stopped climbing at #72.

Tragically, just over three years after being hired as the lead singer of The Drifters, Rudy Lewis was dead.

Rudy Lewis died of a drug overdose on May 21, 1964 in New York.

Waxfact: Rudy Lewis’s death occurred the night before The Drifters were due in for a recording session. Little Sylvia (Robinson of Sugar Hill Records) saw group member Charlie Thomas on the street and broke the news. The Drifters still showed up to their session – in tears and mourning – to record a number of the classic songs including “Under the Boardwalk.”